~ A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~
~ If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~
~ You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~
~ Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. ~
~ Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~
~ Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~
~ Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ~
~ Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ~
~ A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way ~
~ A house without books is like a room without windows. ~
~ A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~
~ Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him
and a houseful of books isn't poor.
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